Sergey Kuryokhin

Experimental pianist Sergei Kuryokhin was among the leading lighting from the Russian avant-garde until his death in 1996. Relocating between many experimental rock organizations and much more classically affected materials, Kuryokhin was a questionable shape in his period, once showing up on Russian tv to demonstrate that Lenin had not been a individual, but instead a mushroom. His later on change to the ultra right-wing Country wide Bolshevik Party triggered a riff one of the avant-garde Russian community who cannot find out if he was real or simply tugging off a satirical prank. Kuryokhin was created in Murmansk on June 16, 1954, and shifted to Leningrad in 1971. Although his early profession was centered on traditional piano, he gradually moved to test in other blood vessels such as for example jazz and hard rock and roll before becoming thinking about free of charge jazz and improvised avant-garde music. An associate from the Leningrad Conservatory and Institute of Tradition, he was later on expelled for his musical passions. During the period of his profession, he was an associate of several organizations, including Post, Bol’shoi Zheleznyi, and Gol’fstrim. He found prominence with Aquarium & most famously with Pop-Mekhanika, which he created in 1985. That group presented an ever-changing lineup of underground rock and roll music artists from Leningrad. Combining together musical designs from traditional to progressive rock and roll to operetta, the group performed live concerts with overall performance artists and a range of home and exotic pets. In the mean time, the composer continuing his desire for composing avant-garde music of most types with collaborators and by himself until the period of his loss of life.